"Progress lies not in enhancing what is,..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

“All progression is in the relative world.”

“I love reform better than its modes.”

“History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.”

“If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.”

“I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.”

“I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.”